Companies and organizations have to think real hard before filing a UDRP. They need to weigh the cost of losing and seeing a name become unobtainable versus just buying the name from the get go. If you get an experienced domain investor angry you are going to get a price adjustment that will be pretty expensive. Mike Mann just won a UDRP and tweeted the following: We just won UDRP for … [Read more...]
Wired.com: .Com Is The Choice of VC Backed Startups
Wired.com just published a post entitled "Why .Com is the Venture Capital Community’s Power Player" highlighting the use of .Com by VC backed startups. "In a recent essay, Paul Graham, venture capitalist and co-founder of the Y Combinator seed capital firm said, “The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness.” It’s no wonder that 100 percent of the top 20 Y … [Read more...]
Yahoo Buys The Domain TheVertical.com From Mike Mann
Yahoo has bought the domain name TheVertical.com from Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com The domain name had a buy it now (BIN) price of $15,000. The domain name was sold with Sedo handling the escrow services. The brand protection company Mark Monitor is now the registrar for the domain name. It's interesting that Yahoo purchased the domain since its core business has been reportedly for … [Read more...]
Michael Mann On Domain Hoarding By Registrars and The WLS
This is a guest post by Michael Mann, who is responsible for this content. Michael started and later sold, BuyDomains.com, and was a pioneer in the domain industry. Michael more recently started a charitable organization GrassRoots.org whose banners frequent appear across networks of parked pages: """"In this case the illegal hoarding of domains by registrars, started by NSI, in cahoots … [Read more...]